24 t..S U L.J..J 0.. vD U L.J..J 0.. :..I '\ .. -- , \ " When the evening calls for all-out glamour, this is the way to go The ultra-alluring blouson top slips over a soft spill of a separate trumpet skirt. I n the supplest nylon jersey, midnight black, 5 to 13 sizes, 44.00 Fifth Avenue and branches.. Mail orders to 521 Fifth Avenue. Add applicable tax plus 1.25 handling beyond delivery area. Sorry, no c.o.d.'s. GOINGS ON ABOUT TOWN " cludes "It Only Happen When I Dance with You" (First \. venue Screening Room; Oct. 17) ELECTRA GLIDE IN BLUE-One of those youth n10V- ies about An1ericana in which the sky looks turquoise blue, though thi is not to deride the generally fine photography of Conrad Hall. Story of a mutorcycle cop in the \1Vest who is clobbered by the corruption and new- fangled times around hIm. Robert Blake plays a Vietnam veteran who is psychologically wobbly hut \vho helps to clinch the movie's veracity. The old tale of the do-gooder law- man in a preening new guise. Directed by J an1es William Guercio. (U. A. East; through Oct. 18.) ENTER THE DRAGON-With Bruce Lee and John · Saxon, directed by Robert Clouse (Loews Ciné; through Oct. 1 R.) FANTASIA (1940)-Disney enlisted an odd as- sortment of collaborators (Stokowski and Stra vinsky, anlong others), and the filnl-a grab bag of animated shorts-wa -;; publicized as if it were an artistic landn1ark. It failed cotnmercially, and has been revived as a head film for Mickey Mouse heads. (Cinema Vil- lage.) FELLINI SATYRICON (1970)-Fellini, basking in sin, in the De Mille godle sness-is-Idwless- ness tradition. The fresco effect of the filtn becomes monotonous, as if his phantasn1ago- ria of the pagan world were a stage pano- ran1a set on a treadn1ill In Italian. (Elgin; Oct. 18-20.) FELLlNI'S ROt.AA (1972)-This funeral ode to a poisoned cit) is often beautiful, but it' also fatuous and empty. Fellini appears to see himself as official greeter for the apocalypse. In English and Italian. (Elgin; Oct. 21-22.) FIVE ON THE BLACK HAND SIDE- vVith Clarice Tay- lor and Leonard Jackson, directed by Oscar \ì\Tillianls. (R.I(.O. 86th St. Twin 2; starting Oct. 24.) FLYING DOWN TO RIO (1933)-The ron1antic leads in this R.I<'O. n1usical were Dolores Del H.io, Gene Raymond, and Raul Roulien, but it is fan10us for being the movie in which Ginger tnet Fred. (They were intended for comic relief.) The dances, including "The Carioca" and the airborne number that Ken RusseU i111itates in "The Boy Friend," were choreographed by Dave Gould; the songs, by Gus Kahn, Ed\vard Eliscu, and Vincent Y OUlnans, include "Orchids in the lvloon- light" and "Music Makes Me." Thornton Freeland directed. (Theatre 80 St. 11arks: Oct. 2 I -23.) FROM THE MIXED-UP FILES OF MRS. BASIL E. FRANK- WEILER-Ingrid Bergl11an, as a recluse art pa- tron, and two coy runaway children who've hidden for a week in the Metropolitan Mu- seU111 of Art. Directed by Fielder Cook. (:vi u- sic Hall; Oct. 17. . . . ç Ziegfeld; starting Oct. 19.) GET TO KNOW YOUR RABBIT-With T0111 Slnothers and John Astin, directed by Brian De Pahna. (Symphony; through Oct. 23.) THE GRANDE BOuFFE-Slang for the big blowout, the grand guzzle. A funny, gnm parable about the well-off and Rubens-like of the \vorld Me111bers of a hermetic houseparty, and ruined by having no sense of conse- quence, they set out joyfully to eat them- selves to death. With Marcello Mastroianni, Michel Piccoli, lJgo Tognazzi. and Philippe N oiret. Directed b, Marco Ferreri. In French. (Little Carn gie ) THE GREAT DICTATOR (1940)-Chaplin plays a small-til11e Jewish barber and doubles as a mock Hitler called Hynkel, dictator of To- mania, who argues with N apaloni, dictator of Bacteria He is helped on by Herring and Garbitsch. The notion of a [940 farce abuut Hitler and anti-Semitisl11 works out much less queasily than it sounds. The fa1110us sequence when Hynkel lies on his back and tosses around a balloon in,;crihed with a map of the world is d miracle of high-flying. mordant fun. But the last impassioned speech about peace and unity still \vrecks everything that has gone before; Chaplin 111awkish can always overrule Chaplin the innocent 111ime. (Quad Cinema; through Oct. 23.) LA GUERRE EST FINIE (19()6)-Jorge Sen1prun wrote and Alain Resnais directed this an1- bivalent but c0111pel1ing study of a failed rad- icaL Yves Montand is a Con1111unist courier who goes on stoically carrying out policies he kno\\ s are futile. \ì\Tith Ingrid Thulin and Geneviève Bujold. In French. (Carnegie Hall Cinen1a; through Oct. 18.) THE HARDER THEY COME- Jinl111) Cliff, the reggae singer has the verve of an instinctive actor. In this crude but sensual J al1laican fi1111, he plays a country boy who \Vdnts to become a pop star and who achieves his a111bition only by becol11Íng a fa1110us killer; he reaches the top of the hit-record charts when he's on the Most \\1" anted posters. The fill11, directed by Perry HenzeU, is feverish and haphazard. but the 111usic redeems 111uch of it, and the rhythl11Íc s\ving of the J a111aicdll speech is hypnotic. (Paratnount; through the afternoon of Oct. 25.) HEAT (1972)-i\ slack, depressive Morrissey- \\rarhol version of "Sunset Boulevard," with Joe Dallesandro as a stud hustler and Sylvia Miles as the predatory tdr in the big I1lan- sion. It's llleant to be a funn) exploitation 1110vie, but the COI11ÍC m0111ents are rare. (Olympia; through Oct. 23.) HEAVY TRAFFic-Ralph Bakshi, begetter of 'Fritz the Cat," wrote and directed this out- rdgeous and s0111bre full-length cartoon about lives in Manhattan. It was conceived in love and loathing, and executed "vith a sa\'age gift that is often disruptingly funny. The sound track of the drawn sections of the sel11Í- realistic film is an innovation, with dialogue spoken 111uttered and yel1ed by unseen peo- ple who are audibly in motion and acting whatever their cartoun selves are doing. The graphics elide fro111 animation into realistic acting, and actual sets are mixed with photo- graphed city backdrops that sometinles have haunting effects created in the darkroom. (Ea t 59th Street II.) THE HIRELING-Made by an Englishn1an na111ed .t\,lan Bridges, fronl an L. p. Hartley novel about titnes between the \ì\T or Id vVars \\ hen class warfare in England could cut to the raw. H.obert Shaw plays a chauffeur who know,; how to say "My lady" and stay just this side of rudeness; the girl he dotes on, Lady Franklin, is very weU played by Sarah files, who gives to the character's etiolated breeding the sort of beauty that C0111es, like the perfection of old English la\\.ns, fro111 a fa111ily history of five hundred years of being looked <:lfter. Diluted stuff, vulgarized in its tll0nlents of 111elodral11a. (Colul11hia II ) H IT!- With Billv Dee Willian1s and Richard Pryor, directed by Sidney J. Furie. (Loews Orpheum; through Oct. 18.... q Beacon; through Oct. 23.) HORSE FEATHERS (1932)- The 1farx Brothers in one of their best c0l11edies. The setting is dcadel11ic, and Thel111a Todd i the col1ege widow to vvhom Groucho sings "E\'eryol1e Says 'I Love You.' " (Plaza: through Oct. 20.) COULD NEVER. . . . -Chronicle of a Martha's Vineyard holiday spent by two dozily Inarried couples who think of \vife swapping but don't do it Htunorous rather than funny. vVritten by Dan Greenburg fro111 his own novel "Chewsday. Å. Sex Nove1." The rain pours the fog swirls, the cold bites hard. the knife- edge of the dialogue slips off the bone. (Art: starting Oct. 24.) ESCAPED FROM DEVIL'S ISLAND-With Jim Brown and Christopher George, directed by William \Vitney. (Juliet 1, and Riviera.) I. F. STONE'S WEEKLy-A ducumentary on the journalist, directed by Jerry Bruck, J r. (First ...\.venue Screening ROOl1l; starting Oct. 18.) THE INHERITOR-With Jean-Paul Bel1110ndo and Charles Denner, directed by Philippe Labro. In French. (Eastside Cinema, and 68th St. Playhouse.) JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR-So-called, though Christ looks more like a blu-;;hing starlet Mod and 111U';Ctllar version of Jesus' last seven days, directed by Norman J ewison, with doggerel words that would lower the tone of a subway. Ted Keeley is the blond superstar. Everyone between sixteen and sixteen and a quarter will no doubt respond to the general look of be111used and incol11111unicable messianism. (86th St East; through Oct. 23.) JONATHAN LIVINGSTON SEAGULL-Ba"ed on the Richard Bach novel, directed by Hall Bartlett. (Sutton; starting Oct. 23 at 7 :45. Opening night by invitation only.) JULIET OF THE SPIRITS (196s)-Feclerico Fellini looks at a mousy vvife's fantasy life; her un- conscious eenlS to be stuffed with leftover decor fro111 M-G-M 111usicals. A peculiarly ungallant fill11. With Giulietta Masina. In Italian. (Elgin; Oct 21-22.) JUNIOR BONNER (1972)-SaI11 Peckinpah's affec- tionate piece about the dead-and-gone past of rodeos, with very fine perfor111ances by Rob- ert Preston as an aging roisterer of a father,